A week-long layoff and five-hour flight provided the LSU women’s basketball team some obstacles when it landed in a tropical locale the week of Thanksgiving.

Coach Kim Mulkey always expects to see some sloppiness on such trips. But she didn’t see much on the most recent one, a two-game stint in which her Tigers picked up lopsided wins over Marist and Washington State to take their division of the Paradise Jam Tournament in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

LSU rolled through those matchups Friday and Saturday, winning by a combined score of 225-88 and widening their NCAA-record streak to eight games of 100 or more points.

“What I learned is what I've been knowing,” Mulkey told The Advocate on Friday. “I've got a lot of talent. I've got a lot of weapons.”

Mulkey will learn more about th

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